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St. PETERSBURG
- Saint-Petersburg was founded on May 27, 1703. It's situated on the coast of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, in the estuary of the Neva river and on the islands of the Neva delta on the 60th parallel of the Nothern altitude, and is the biggest megapolis in the world situated so far north.
Palace Square (Dvortsovaya sq.) and the Winter Palace (Hermitage).
The State Hermitage is one of the oldest and the largest museums of the world, founded in 1764. The museum takes about 400 rooms situated in 5 historic buildings including the Winter Palace - the residence of the Russian Tsars.
The museum collection includes 15 thousand paintings, 12 thousand sculptures, 600 thousand drawings, over 600 thousand archeological monuments, over a million coins and medals, over 4 millon works of applied art.
Open: 10.30 - 17.00. Sunday - till 16.00. Closed on Monday.
Address: Dvortsovaya (Palace) embankment, 34.
Metro station: "Nevsky prospect".
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- Territory: 606 square km, including the suburbs - 1439 square km.
Population: 4 730 000 people as of January 1, 1999.
Time: St. Petersburg is situated in the Moscow time zone.
The summer Moscow time (MST) = Greenwich time (GMT) + 4 hours.
Winter Moscow time = GMT + 3 hours. Change to summer time is the last Saturday of March, change to winter time is the last Saturday of October.
A quiet street near the Hermitage.
March 8, 2002, about 1.00 p.m.
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- The public ground transport of St. Petersburg includes buses, trolleybuses, trams and route taxis. Ground transport works from 6.00 till 24.00. To ride public ground transport one must buy a ticket from the conductor. The cost of one ride is 6 rubles. Route taxis operate from 7.00 till 22.00. The ticket are sold by the driver. The coast of one ride is about 14 rubles.
Atlant. Hermitage.
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- The Metro of St. Petersburg consists of 4 lines with 58 stations. It works from 5.45 till 24.00.
Cathedral.
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